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Han Xu

Mr. Han Xu was born in Jiangning County of Jiangsu Province on 26thMay 1924 and passed away on 19thJuly 1994.He served as vice minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China from April 1982 to April 1985.

Before the founding of New China, Mr. Han Xu was an English teacher of the College of Foreign Languages of the North China Allied University in Shanxi-Chaha'er-Hebei Border Area, then working staff of the Peking Office of Military Mediation and Execution.In 1949, he worked at the Office of Foreign & Overseas Chinese Affairs of Beijing Municipal Government shortly after Beijing was liberated.He joined the foreign service afterwards and took the posts of section chief and assistant director of the Protocol Department (from 1949 to 1963), first secretary and political counselor of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union (from 1963 to 1965), deputy director-general and director-general of the Protocol Department (from 1965 to 1973), deputy director (Ambassadorial level) of the Liaison Office in the United States (from 1973 to 1979), director-general of the Department of North American & Oceania Affairs (from 1979 to 1982) and Chinese ambassador to the United States (from 1985 to 1989).In the 1950s and 1960s, as a member of the Chinese Government Delegations headed by Premier Zhou Enlai, he attended the Geneva Conference in 1954 and 1961, the Bandung Conference in 1955, and joined in the visit to 11 European and Asian countries.He also joined in the reception of numerous visiting heads of states and governments during this time.In the 1970s and 1980s, he was in charge of American and Oceania affairs while put much energy and resources on the United States.He worked in the US for 10 years, and was deeply involved in the reception of Dr. Kissinger's visit in 1971, President Nixon's visit in 1972, the late stage of negotiations of the Joint Communiqué of 17thAugust 1982, and the exchange of visits of Premier Zhao Ziyang and President Reagan in 1984.

From 1989 onwards, he was engaged in people-to-people's diplomacy and assumed the post of President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.He was member of the Standing Committee and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 8thNational Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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